Chapter 6: Rat King's Challenge 2
"Squeak!"
Apparently with absolute confidence in himself, Iron Fang threw his head back and let out a short, high-pitched cry as the five Moonlight Rat Leaders were in place, and the Recorder said the leader challenge had begun, and then flicked his limbs and charged in the direction of Ron!
The shiny black fur is its armor, the fast-moving limbs are its tracks, and the black incisors are its artillery, like a miniature tank, the iron fangs rumble towards Ron standing on the edge of the right side of the barrel, with an unstoppable momentum!
"Squeak—"
Ron let out a cry too, but it was low and suppressed, drowning in his throat. Staring at the charging iron fangs with his eyes red from the full moon, Ron quietly bent down, his sharp claws gripping into the thick planks of the oak barrel beneath him, while the muscles of his limbs tensed and prepared to withstand the onslaught.
"Boom!"
There was a muffled sound, and the whole giant oak barrel was shaking!
The full moon's bonus to the Moonlight Rats is terrifying, and under the light of the full moon, the Moonlight Rats not only have human-like intelligence, but also have near-human strength!
And both Iron Fang and Ron are the best of the Moonlight Rats, and they are able to get more amplification from Moonlight than ordinary Moonlight Rats!
"Squeak——!
The ferocious charge and impact did not get the desired result, and Iron Fang frowned and immediately changed his fighting style and entered the grappling. As a result, the front teeth collided with the front teeth, the tail intertwined, and the forelimbs with sharp claws tore each other's hair, causing long, bleeding wounds from time to time.
Ron, on the other hand, didn't make any more sound, just silently biting, and stabbing and stabbing with his claws!
Blood slowly seeped from the wounds on the fur of the two moonlight rats, soaked through the fur, and then flowed to the top of the oak barrel, which seemed to shimmer with a strange purple glow in the cold moonlight.
"Squeak!?"
How so?
I should have won easily!!
Feeling the increasing number of wounds on his body and the fatigue caused by the passage of blood, Iron Fang's original confidence suddenly wavered.
In fact, it wasn't a decision to challenge the Boss alone, but the result of a joint discussion by the four Moonlight Rat Leaders.
Since the last time he was bathed in moonlight at the top of the oak barrel and was swept by a ring of moonlight, both Iron Fang and the other three group leaders have undergone some wonderful changes. Originally, with the loss of the moon after the full moon, the intelligence and strength of the moonlight rats would gradually decline until they were the same as ordinary mice, but the four group leaders found that their intelligence and strength levels stopped when they dropped to the level of the convex moon!
Although it was a little dull compared to the full moon, the four Moonlight Rat Leaders immediately understood that this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, a great opportunity to seize the position of the leader of the Moonlight Rat!
So while Ron was silently familiar with the body of the Moonlight Rat Leader, the four Moonlight Rat group leaders, Iron Fang, Scarface, Fat Man, and Long Tail, had already launched an emergency consultation to make a series of plans and assumptions about the process and battle of the leader's challenge to ensure that nothing went wrong.
Then, after signing a contract that no matter which moonlight rat leader becomes the leader of the group, the iron fangs who are stronger than the rats are elected to become the final rat in the first leader challenge!
Even, in order to ensure the victory of the leader's challenge, the Moonlight Rat group leaders also instructed their subordinates to steal a tube of potion with an abstract bull's head pattern carved on the wall of the bottle from an alchemy shop in the Wojin Mall in the market area, and let Iron Fang take it before the leader challenged!
............
"Squeak!"
Suppressing a low chirp in his throat again, Ron gritted his front teeth, his sharp front paws cutting through the fur at the joints of the iron teeth and the convergence of blood vessels. He was struggling to hold on, because from the iron fang, which was larger than his body, the tremendous power came like a tide, wave after wave. Only by keeping his center of gravity as low as he could, digging his hind paws into the plank, and resisting with all his might, would Ron not be swept off the top of the barrel in the grappling with the iron fangs of a miniature tank.
But even so, the Iron Fang pushed Ron step by step towards the edge of the barrel, allowing Ron's claws to scratch deep scratches into the planks of the barrel!
"Squeak——!
I can win!
The leader of the Moonlight Rats in Ascatra should be me!
The effect of the abstract bull head potion in the body all exploded, and in the roar, the iron fang, which was originally larger than Ron's huge size, expanded again, almost twice the size of Ron, and the violent power that gushed out of the iron fang's body immediately acted on Ron's body, even if Ron gave up attacking Iron Fang with his front paws as soon as he felt this power, and instead grabbed the plank with all his limbs, still pushed by Iron Fang to keep approaching the edge of the oak barrel!
"Squeak!"
Come on!
It's just the last point!
Scarface, Fatty, and Longtail chirped from under the barrel as they watched Ron's tight link Longtail snap out of the edge of the barrel, and depending on the length of the cocked tail, Iron Fang only needed a little more effort to push Ron off the barrel and win the throne of the Moonlight Rat Leader!
However, this step is a long one......
"Squeak!"
The barrel's planks have a slightly raised rim, which was originally intended to better shape the barrel, but now it is a lifesaver for Ron.
Pressing against the edge with his hind limbs, Ron's body leaned forward at a forty-five degree angle, like a deed that plunged into the gap between the edge of the barrel and the top of the barrel, and stubbornly withstood the push and squeeze of the iron fangs that had increased in strength.
"Squeak!"
Hey, knowledge is power!
Bearing the fierce push and squeeze of the iron fangs, a smile appeared on Ron's lips.
Although Iron Fang is powerful and strong, he only knows how to use brute force in battle, and has no rules at all, and his love of biology and machinery in his previous life has allowed Ron to deal with his current situation calmly.
Because of his knowledge of living organisms, Ron's attack was aimed at the joints and blood vessels of Iron Fang at the beginning, and the power that Iron Fang could fully exert at this moment was not all the power in his body.
At the same time, the study of mechanics and physics has allowed Ron to intelligently adjust the angle of his body, so that it is easier to deal with it!
"Squeak!"
Come on!
"Squeak!"
Push it down!
Under the oak barrel, the five moonlight rats looked up at the top, among them, the long tail, the scarface, and the fat man chirped continuously, cheering for the iron fangs, and on the oak barrel, the iron teeth also felt the surging power in their bodies because of the potion, and constantly applied it to Ron, but they could no longer push Ron one step.
So, the little fiery red eyes of the iron teeth began to turn, and it was him thinking.
"Squeak!"
Feel my power?
You can't resist it, give up, as long as you give up fighting, you can still be a group leader!
Another hard push, Iron Fang looked down into Ron's eyes, chirping, seducing. However, Ron was keenly aware that although Iron Fang was still so strong, the impact had been imperceptibly weakened.